Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson has sold a portfolio of patents and patent applications to intellectual property company Unwired Planet. The company, which claims to be the "inventor of the mobile internet", was known as Openwave back ...
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January 14, 2013 - Westinghouse Lighting announced today the establishment of Westinghouse Lighting Canada (WLC)—a joint venture with Combi Inc., a Montreal based sales and marketing agency. Westinghouse says it currently sells ...
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January 14, 2013 - Chris Huskilson, president and CEO of Emera Inc. has named several executive changes at Emera, Nova Scotia Power and Emera Caribbean. Rob Bennett has been promoted to the role of executive vice president and chief ...
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Parties responsible for a new KSh12 billion cement factory in the West Pokot district of Kenya have announced that the project will be completed next year, following revisions to the project’s implementation plan. The project, ...
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Qassim Cement Co increased net profits by 1.46% in 2012 to $149.6m. The company, which is based in the city of Buraydah, said that net profits for the fourth quarter of the year dipped by 2.1%, however, to $38.1m. It blamed this on the ...
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IDG News Service - Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system failed to provide a spark to PC sales during last year's fourth quarter, with worldwide unit shipments falling by 6.4% compared to the same quarter in 2011, according to research by ...
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IDG News Service - SAP's flagship Business Suite enterprise resource planning (ERP) software can now run on top of the HANA in-memory database, in a move that stands to open new frontiers of competition with the likes of Oracle, IBM and ...
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ORLANDO, FL, January 13, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Usiris, a cutting-edge provider of satellite based entertainment, is pleased to announce that they are now offering high-speed satellite internet from Exede, via their newly launched ...
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Despite a major push by rival Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard has held onto its position as the top seller of PCs worldwide, according to IDC. The researcher Thursday reported that HP maintained its worldwide PC lead in the fourth quarter despite ...
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Apparently ending 2012 on a high, Nokia’s Devices and Services unit exceeded expectations by selling 4.4 million Lumia smartphones during the fourth quarter of last year, preliminary data shows. Nokia currently estimates that its ...
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IBM has always been bullish on patents and 2012 proved to be no exception. IBM once again amassed more patents than any other company in a single year, a distinction it has enjoyed for the past 20 years. For 2012, IBM received 6,478 ...
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Apple’s manufacturing partner Foxconn has come under fire again, this time it is the subject of a bribery probe by the Chinese authorities. The Wall Street Journal has received a statement from Foxconn parent company Hon Hai, ...
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Volkswagen AG, Europe's biggest automaker, said last Friday that automobile sales of Volkswagen, including cars and SUV, increased by 12.7 percent last year, which hit a new record of 5.74 million. In December, sales of Volkswagen surged ...
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We've seen smart phones getting bigger and bigger, and now tablets are following suit. The newest Vizio Tablet PC is a whopping 11.6-inch device that weighs 1.8 pounds. It's the largest tablet we've seen, but it didn't feel overly bulky or ...
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If you're looking for maximum snow-throwing distance from a compact snow blower and have plenty of money to spare, you might be tempted to spring for the $2,200 Honda HS724WA, one of the eight snow blowers we've just added to our Ratings of ...
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